Can we discuss the possibility of abstract symbols to be used with emoji please?

[William_J_G Overington]

Gabriel Tellez wrote:

> You made those symbols yourself, no?

I thought of having such symbols, thought of designs for the symbols, 
produced electronic images of the designs using the Affinity Designer 
software program, suggested the code numbers so that they can be used. 
They are Open Source in the hope that they will become used.

This research is at an early stage. I needed to start somewhere. The 
symbols are now published and a method to apply them has been suggested. 
Is it art? Is it technology? Is it useful? Can the symbols convey 
meaning effectively, including through the language barrier? Will 
someone study them as applied art?

Maybe one day the symbols and the meaning of each will become encoded in 
The Unicode Standard. That will need the symbols to become widely used 
by people other than the person who devised them.

Maybe one day they will be displayed at MoMA, the Museum of Modern Art 
in New York.

http://www.users.globalnet.co.uk/~ngo/emoji_installation_at_MoMA.htm

There are some other symbols that I have devised, listed from the 
following web page.

http://www.users.globalnet.co.uk/~ngo/mariposa_novel.htm

They too each have a code that I have assigned to them, so they can be 
used now if people choose to use them.

Maybe other people will devise such abstract symbols and assign meanings 
too. It would be interesting to observe if symbols by various people can 
be used together, how various researchers interact.

William Overington

Saturday 23 March 2023


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